The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1887-07-23
FAMOUS CAUTIONS.
Surprising Stories About Mans Storage
Capacity.

Surprising Stories About Mans storage
Capacity.
Elizabeth Charlotte, the Duchess or Or
leans, writing under the date of December
6. 171S, says: THE late King, Monsieur
the Dauphin, and the Due de Berri were
terrible anters. l have often seen the
King eat four plates of different kinds of
soup, whole pheasant, partridge, dish
of salad, two thick slices of ham, mutton
favored with garlic, a plateful of pastry,
and finish his repast with fruit and hard
boiled eggs" There was a good old Ger
man from Wittenberg, where my Lord
Hamlet attended the university, who had a
fine faculty for storing away provender.
His case is well attested. For wager he
would eat whole sheep or pig, or put
out of sight bushel of cherries, stones
and all. He lived until he was about
eighty years of age, greater portion of
the time supporting himself by exhibiting
the popularity of his appetite, which, to
say the least, must have been very eecen-
trio one. Thus, he would chew glass,
earthenware and flint into small fragments.
He had an especial preference for cater
pillars, mice and birds, and when these
were not procurable he would content him
self with mineral substances.
Once he put down his "maw aud gulf, "
a pen, the ink and the sand pounce, and
he would have gobbled the inkstand, too,
had he not been restrained. Taylor, the
water poet, tells of Nicholas Wood, of the
county of Kent, in England, who was a
tolerably good trencherman. On one oc-
casion he got away with whole sheep; at
another time with several "a bbits; at third
with three dozen pigeons grown pig
cons, not squads; again with eighteen yards
of black buildings, and on two other occa-
sions sixty pounds of cherries and three
pecks of damsons.
DR.. Copeland, in speaking Of two chill
dren who had wonderful appetites, the
youngest, seven years old, being the worse,
said "The quantity of food deyoured by
her was astonishing. Everything that
could be laid hold of, even in its raw state,
was seized upon most greedily. Among
other articles an uncooked rabbit, half
pound of candles and some butter were
taken at one time. The mother stated that
this little girl, who was apparently in good
health otherwise, took more food, if she
could possibly obtain it, than the rest of
her family, consisting Of six besides her
SELF"
A trife over hundred years ago
London youth ate five pounds of shoulder
of lamb and two quarts of green peas in
fifty minutes; and Polish soldier who was
presented at the court of Saxony succeeded
in one day in getting outside of twenty
pounds of beef and half a roast calf, with
the appropriate "fxings." When George
III. was King, watchmakers apprentice,
nineteen years of age, in three-quarters of
an hour devoured leg of pork weighing
six pounds and proportionate quantity of
peas pudding, washing it all down with a
pint of brandy, taking in two "tots." The
tall Nick Davenport, the actor, is knownt to
have eaten seven-pound turkey at SIN
gle sitting. Instances of depraved appe-
tite are numerous, and men haye been
known to swallow fire, swords, spiders,
files, toads, serpents, cotton, halr, clay,
chalk, flint, musket balls and earthenware.
One man could swallow billiard balls and
gold watches. In the New York medical
Journal for 1882 a record is made of man
who could swallow clasp knives with i'm
punity. One day he overdid the business
BY swallowing fourteen, and it killed him,
which well it might. In 1870 in England
,wo men of Wiltshire wagered with each
other as to which could consume the great
st quantity of food in the shortest space
IF time. One of them blotted from exist
,nce six pounds and half of rabbit, loaf
If bread, and two pounds of cheese in a
quarter of an hour, and he was SO pleased
With the appreciation he received from the
,ystanders that be finished off with a beef
teak, pint and half of gin, and half
pint of brandy.